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I am Muslim, I am an immigrant, and interestingly, from Africa, is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy, or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced?
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Kevin McCarthy’s purely partisan moves to strip us from our committee is not only a political stunt, but also a blow to the integrity of our democratic institution and threat to our national security.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think it would be hypocritic [sic] for him to remove, you know, the first African born on subcommittee on Africa on the Foreign Affairs Committee, where I’ve had the opportunity to not only represent my constituents but the voice of so many people who have never had a voice on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Kevin McCarthy’s purely partisan move to strip us from our committee is not only a political stunt, but also a blow to the integrity of our democratic institution and threat to our national security, if McCarthy wants to denigrate the House and its committees, we will always stand up to these efforts.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Anytime there is a deviance in regards to security protocols, that should be taken serious, it should be investigated.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is due to two things.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Let me be clear, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a corrupt jurist and should have no place on our highest court, clarence Thomas for the past three decades worked in tandem with his wife from the bench, to decide cases that were in lockstep with his wife's political pursuits.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I support sanctions that are targeted at Putin, his oligarchs, and the Russian military, including and especially targeted at their offshore assets, but I will continue to oppose broad-based sanctions that would amount to collective punishment of a Russian population that did not choose this.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That last squad member Cori Bush just had her car shut up and then she hired an armed private security detail. But that's life in America.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not going to have people try to smear me that belong to a political party that has elevated antisemites to the halls of Congress, like( US Rep.) Ilhan Omar, that have played footsie with the( boycott Israel) movement.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Because here’s the thing, there’s a cancer.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have had a conversation with the speaker, and I'm very confident that she will take decisive action next week.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments, she instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've had a conversation with the Speaker and I'm very confident that she will take decisive action next week, as you know, when I first got to Congress, I was worried that I wasn't going to be allowed to be sworn in because there was a ban on the hijab. She promised me that she would take care of it. She fulfilled that promise. She's made another promise to me that she will take care of this, and I believe her.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today I graciously accepted a call from Rep. Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate, instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments. She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments. She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The truth is that Islamophobia pervades our culture, our politics and even policy decisions, leading politicians in the Republican Party routinely spout hateful rhetoric about a religion that includes a diverse group of more than a billion peaceful worshipers around the world. This includes falsely claiming Muslims want to replace the Constitution and implement Sharia law, portraying Muslims as inherently violent.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today I graciously accepted a call from Rep. Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Normalizing this bigotry not only endangers my life but the lives of all Muslims, anti-Muslim bigotry has no place in Congress.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It just gets worse, this is unhinged, and she continues to be emboldened by her party. This is their brand and it's dangerous.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments. She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call, she kept asking for a public apology so I told Ilhan Omar that she should make a public apology to the American people for her anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-police rhetoric. She continued to press and I continued to press back. And then, Representative Omar hung up on me.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today I graciously accepted a call from Rep. Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate, instead of apologizing for Lauren Boebert Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Lauren Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge Lauren Boebert hurtful and dangerous comments. Lauren Boebert instead doubled down on Lauren Boebert rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Minneapolis Police Department is the most dysfunctional in our state and probably in the country.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The truth of the matter is that what these politicians are doing, they're exploiting really the decency, the decency of the American people, which responded to the situation in this country where racism was much too prevalent and persisted long after the slavery slaves were freed. And America, as a nation stood up, took notice of that and made major major changes, which have opened doors of opportunity throughout the land throughout society.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Poverty is a choice, for too long we have prioritized endless growth while millions are homeless, hungry or without healthcare. We as a nation have the ability to make sure everyone has their basic needs like food, housing and healthcare met.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To be clear : the conversation was about accountability for specific incidents regarding those ICC cases, not a moral comparison between Hamas and the Taliban and the U.S. and Israel, i was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries with well-established judicial systems.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ignoring the differences between democracies governed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one’s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is not a conflict between two states. This is not a civil war. It is a conflict where one country, funded and supported by the United States government, continues an illegal military occupation over another group of people.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So our hope is that... this boycott would result in changes in the law, because we understand that when you restrict people's ability to vote, you create a democracy that isn't fully functioning for all of us. And if we are to continue to be a beacon of hope for all democracies around the world, we must stand our ground.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As soon as the election wasover ... we have seen the pundits and some of the leaders within the Democratic Party, oreven some of our colleagues,who are freshmen, talk about us getting back to basics -- saying you know,the squad -- Alex[andria Ocasio-Cortez], Ilhan, Rashida [Tlaib], all of you have to stop talking about everything you talk about, because we need to get back to basics.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
John Lewis was one of the rare political figures in Washington who was widely revered. At a time when politics isso divisive and Republicans and Democrats are firmly entrenched in separate camps, John Lewis was the congressman who transcended party affiliation and was regarded as a national treasure in Washington. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she burst into tears when she first arrived at the Capitol for freshman orientation in 2018 and had a chance to meet John Lewis. I ran into Congressman John Lewis and I burst into tears and I said to him, Sir, I read about you in middle school and you are here in the flesh and I get to be your colleague.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
No one is saying crimes will not be investigated. No one is saying that we are not going to have proper response when community members are in danger, what we are saying is the current infrastructure that exists as policing in our city should not exist anymore. And we can't go about creating a different process with the same infrastructure in place. And so dismantling it and then looking at what funding priorities should look like as we re-imagine a new way forward is what needs to happen.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Netanyahu's decision to deny us entry might be unprecedented for members of Congress, but it is the policy of his government when it comes to Palestinians, this is the policy of his government when it comes to anyone who holds views that threaten the occupation. A policy that has been edged on and supported by Trump's administration, that's because the only way to preserve unjust policy is to suppress people's freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of movement.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would encourage my colleagues to visit, meet with the people we were going to meet with, see the things we were going to see, hear the stories we were going to hear, we can not let Donald Trump and Netanyahu succeed in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us. So I call on all of you to go. The occupation is real, barring members of Congress from seeing it does not make it go away. We must end it together.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This president has been credibly accused of committing multiple crimes, including colluding with a foreign government to interfere with our election.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said' al Qaeda' he sort of like -- his shoulders went up.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You might have noticed how when he said go back to where you came from there was an uproar through all of our communities, because every single person who is brown or black, at some point in their life in this country, heard that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Right now, House Democratic leaders are not rising to the moment. Children are dying at the hands of House Democratic leaders own government, thousands are being held indefinitely in cages. They're being forced to sleep on the floor, and denied basic necessities like soap and toothpaste.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are a nation of tremendous wealth. Hunger in this country is the result of policies that keep wages low and funnel wealth to the top. It is the result of a political system that says it is OK to spend money on tax breaks for millionaires and the same companies who taint our economy, but we can't afford to fund meals for our kids in the streets.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Across this country, students whose families are struggling to afford school meals are being singled out and humiliated at lunchtime.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela, and we've sort of set the stage for where we're arriving today.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela and we have sort of set the stage for where we are arriving today, this particular bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change really does not help the people ofcountries like Venezuela and it certainly does not help and is not in the interest of the United States.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
When this occupant of the White House chooses to attack me, we know -- we know -- that that attack isn't for Ilhan, that attack is the continuation of the attacks that he has leveled against women, against people of color, against immigrants, against refugees and certainly against Muslims.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is for us to say, this is for us to say that if you come after one of us, you come after all of us, if I survived militia I certainly can survive these people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Since the President's tweet Friday evening, I have experienced an increase in direct threats on my life — many directly referencing or replying to the President's video, i thank the Capitol Police, the FBI, the House Sergeant at Arms, and the Speaker of the House for their attention to these threats.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
' The people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon !' was Bush downplaying the terrorist attack ? What if he was a Muslim.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it's OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country. I want to ask why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA (National Rifle Association), of fossil fuel industries or Big Pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobbying group that is influencing policies?
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am told everyday that I am anti-American if I am not pro-Israel. I find that to be problematic and I am not alone. I just happen to be willing to speak up on it and open House Democrats to attacks.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is as if every time we say something that is supposed to be about foreign policy or engagement or the efficacy of ending oppression or the freeing of every human life and wanting dignity, we get labeled by something that end the discussion, because we end up defending that and no one gets to have the proper debate about what is happening in Palestine.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
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